It's well known in a lot of places thanks to the documentary "Beer Wars". In the DC area where I live there are several Dogfish Head alehouses and the local Wegmans stocks several of their beers as well. I don't normally like beer but Dogfish Head makes excellent products with variety and eccentricity that actually taste good.
For those of you one the West Coast: Wegmans is a Rochester-based grocers that puts anything else to shame. Seriously, I moved here from the Bay Area.
I already commented, so I can't mod you up, but you're right.
Scientists overstate their claims all the time. I am a peer reviewer for an international journal and this is one of the most common revisions I request of manuscript authors.
Those who deny scientific evidence out-of-hand probably don't understand science. Those who hold scientific evidence as absolute truth definitely don't understand science... Any many of those people call themselves scientists.
I'm no petrol engineer, but I would venture that a gusher a mile underwater is under a lot more pressure than a comparably-sized gusher on the surface of the Arabian Peninsula.
Same here. Our social circles are all parents with kids and kids are still playing the Wii. My 4yo has a Go Diego Go title that he can play, my 8yo is working on NSMBW, and I have golf, baseball, etc. games that I can play casually as a break from my more pressing responsibilities.
Or at least, if we want to affect racial attitudes, should we be focusing on treating "fear" as well as correcting for the effects of racism? I suppose psychology is very familiar with fear and has some treatment for it.
It would, at least, change the format of diversity/sensitivity training.
See, modern White Privilege theory defines racism as gaining unearned benefit from belonging to the privileged race. Because whites cannot divorce themselves from this privilege, all whites are racist. Conversely, because Blacks cannot claim white privilege - upon which racism is predicated - Blacks cannot be racist.
Whether these children exhibit racist tendencies is irrelevant. The real question is, "What color is the child's skin?" If it's white, they are racist....
Wow. Did I just type all that without laughing? Yes, it was tongue-in-cheek, but if you read Kendall's book, that is her model of racism and white privilege.
The interesting part is that I posted my comment from my black MacBook - a computer that I chose for the reasons you stated (plus its openness - runs Windows and Linux just fine *in addition to* the "just works" Mac OS X). But I've never been interested in iPod or iPhone because the fine engineering is useless when it locks me out of it.
But you and I are in the vast minority of Mac users. Microsoft couldn't survive on the techies, neither could Apple. They make their money on the less-savvy masses. In the MP3 and smartphone market, Apple has embraced that lack of knowledge and extended it into a locked-in content/applications model.
The iPad extends that further, which is why it would be a bad thing even if (*especially if*) everyone bought one.
I appreciate Apple somewhat because - for example - the iPod did increase the competition in the DAP market. I don't think my iRiver Clix would exist sans Apple.
But we shouldn't overlook the fact that Apple has been successful because they market locked-in solutions to largely technology-ignorant consumers. Very intelligent (but less computer-savvy) people buy iPods and iPhones because they don't know anything else exists. (How many people do you know who a) owned an MP3 player before buying an iPod? or b) owned a smart phone before buying an iPhone?) Now those people don't know that there are other iPod-compatible music outlets besides the iTunes store, and there *isn't* anywhere else to buy apps for the iPhone besides the app store.
So forgive us for hoping the iPad fails. If it succeeds, it will only further ingrain the vendor-lock-in model in the psyche of American consumers. That would be a loss for all of us.
The obvious parallel here is hearing impairment. The deaf community does not consider themselves to be disabled (though that confuses me when a deaf individual sues for accommodation under ADA). When cochlear implants became possible in the 80's, deaf protests were held outside Senate hearings on whether to cover them with Medicare.
If it costs $10^12 to *attempt* to prevent it and $10^8 to adapt, plus we can bring about a bunch of good with the rest of the funds, it's a no-brainer to me. Admittedly, I pulled those numbers out of mid-air, but it's just an illustration of the options we should consider.
The original poster fully supports Lomborg''s position. Oddly, none of the mainstream environmentalists (that I've seem - please correct me if I'm wrong) are pushing adaptation.
On another note, Lomborg also compares the cost of fighting global warming to the cost of other efforts. He claims that we could get almost everyone clean drinking water and eradicate malaria for less than cap-and-trade would cost.
I agree with you. Putting a trackpad on the back - if done properly - could be one of those I-can't-believe-we-didn't-think-of-this-before ideas. I hope to see it on more devices, if it works. Even if it does work, it might not catch on. The old Garmin 12 had thumb controls *above* the screen. Despite its efficiency for one-hand use, that format never caught on.
Back in the 19th Century (in the US anyway), mail *recipients* paid postage to get their mail from the local general store. Political figures and others who might have a negative following would receive scores of blank letters and have to pay for them. The objective was to either crowd out the legitimate communications or bankrupt the recipient. Traditionally, one could place an ad in the local paper explaining that he or she would no longer receive letters at the store, which would free them from their obligation.
Also, his "they were in charge" cry is tiresome since congress has been in democratic control since 2006. I saw one poll just after the 2008 election asking people which party controlled congress. Around 80% of those who voted democratic responded "the republicans."
Of course, if the tables were turned, I'm not sure those who vote republican would have any clearer idea of how the government operates. It just demonstrates how people craft reality to meet their own beliefs.
One danger of any instructional system is that the student will only retain the material as it pertains to the classroom context. Last night a teacher told me that their "social-awareness" curriculum seemed to work great, until they watched the kids on the playground. In class, the kids applied the negotiation and mediation skills, but not outside the classroom.
I've had math teachers tell me they couldn't think of a real-world problem that could be solved with the math they were teaching.
With educational games - on a computer or not - social or not - the fear is that the students will learn the rules of the game, which are loose abstractions of physical reality, rather than the rules of reality. Oregon Trail taught everyone that each settler needed 99 bullets, and that you could be killed by some wild animal called a "dysentery."
Off topic, but the use of "thru" on a thesis reminded me of something from my dissertation.
I used the term "thusly" in my prospectus, as in "So-and-so explained the effect thusly:" followed by a long quote. The most esteemed (and elderly) member of my committee said, "Look that up before you use it."
I discovered that "thusly" was first used by British satirists to mock the speech of people who were trying to sound intelligent. Its use was promptly adopted by academics.
I'm a teacher educator. I'm frequently amazed at the disdain teachers have for parents. Parents are the ones holding back social justice; parents just aren't involved; any successful student can thank his teachers, any failure must blame his parents.
My favorite is that many in education believe there to be a causal link between parental involvement and student performance. A graduate student (who was also an assistant principal) sent me some references on it, and there was no experimental data to back up that claim (a whole lot of correlation data though). And yet we still have programs to get parents involved expecting that alone to drive up performance.
The more prevalent outcome of parental involvement is a faculty wishing the parents would fade back into the background. Teachers only want parents parents to be involved in a certain way.
Last week my second-grader told me, "Dad, did you know you should read everything your write after you write it?"
"Yes, it's called proof-reading, and the Internet would be a much better place if everyone did it."
You make a great point, but I don't think proof-reading would help many in this generation. I'm a professor and I get emails with "mr. smith" (not "Dr." or "Prof.") as the subject line. I believe (though I haven't tested this) that most of these students couldn't identify the errors.
Now, I'm the second-youngest faculty member in my department, and I didn't receive a lot of formal grammar and writing training in primary or secondary school, but what I did do was read a lot. I read the classics at a young age. I learned my grammar and vocabulary from those texts, which is why I'm so much at odds with The Elements of Style.
I just tested it again and it appears to be an issue only in the browser. When I add a note to an e-book, the screen keeps up fairly well. But when I type a long comment into a textarea on a webpage, it keeps up for the first few words and then slows to a crawl.
I checked a Kindle out of my college library and the WhisperNet browser was better than I had expected. I set up a textarea form on my server, and tested taking notes with it.
The only problem was that each letter would appear on its own refresh cycle (at about 1Hz). While it took me 51 seconds to type out a short paragraph, the K2 was locked up for another 60 seconds while each letter appeared one after the other.
It was clear that the string was saved to a buffer (because I *didn't* have to wait for each letter to appear before typing the next), and I know the refresh rate is just a limitation of e-ink, but it seems an alternative environment could display multiple characters with each refresh.
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It's well known in a lot of places thanks to the documentary "Beer Wars". In the DC area where I live there are several Dogfish Head alehouses and the local Wegmans stocks several of their beers as well. I don't normally like beer but Dogfish Head makes excellent products with variety and eccentricity that actually taste good.
For those of you one the West Coast: Wegmans is a Rochester-based grocers that puts anything else to shame. Seriously, I moved here from the Bay Area.
That's the way it works in theory... Let me know when you get you own LHC fired up so you can personally replicate those findings.
I already commented, so I can't mod you up, but you're right.
Scientists overstate their claims all the time. I am a peer reviewer for an international journal and this is one of the most common revisions I request of manuscript authors.
Thank you.
Those who deny scientific evidence out-of-hand probably don't understand science. Those who hold scientific evidence as absolute truth definitely don't understand science... Any many of those people call themselves scientists.
I'm no petrol engineer, but I would venture that a gusher a mile underwater is under a lot more pressure than a comparably-sized gusher on the surface of the Arabian Peninsula.
Same here. Our social circles are all parents with kids and kids are still playing the Wii. My 4yo has a Go Diego Go title that he can play, my 8yo is working on NSMBW, and I have golf, baseball, etc. games that I can play casually as a break from my more pressing responsibilities.
Enter Marcel Duchamp's snow shovel, comb, and urinal, and other "readymade" or "found" art.
Or at least, if we want to affect racial attitudes, should we be focusing on treating "fear" as well as correcting for the effects of racism? I suppose psychology is very familiar with fear and has some treatment for it.
It would, at least, change the format of diversity/sensitivity training.
See, modern White Privilege theory defines racism as gaining unearned benefit from belonging to the privileged race. Because whites cannot divorce themselves from this privilege, all whites are racist. Conversely, because Blacks cannot claim white privilege - upon which racism is predicated - Blacks cannot be racist.
Whether these children exhibit racist tendencies is irrelevant. The real question is, "What color is the child's skin?" If it's white, they are racist. ...
Wow. Did I just type all that without laughing? Yes, it was tongue-in-cheek, but if you read Kendall's book, that is her model of racism and white privilege.
The interesting part is that I posted my comment from my black MacBook - a computer that I chose for the reasons you stated (plus its openness - runs Windows and Linux just fine *in addition to* the "just works" Mac OS X). But I've never been interested in iPod or iPhone because the fine engineering is useless when it locks me out of it.
But you and I are in the vast minority of Mac users. Microsoft couldn't survive on the techies, neither could Apple. They make their money on the less-savvy masses. In the MP3 and smartphone market, Apple has embraced that lack of knowledge and extended it into a locked-in content/applications model.
The iPad extends that further, which is why it would be a bad thing even if (*especially if*) everyone bought one.
I appreciate Apple somewhat because - for example - the iPod did increase the competition in the DAP market. I don't think my iRiver Clix would exist sans Apple.
But we shouldn't overlook the fact that Apple has been successful because they market locked-in solutions to largely technology-ignorant consumers. Very intelligent (but less computer-savvy) people buy iPods and iPhones because they don't know anything else exists. (How many people do you know who a) owned an MP3 player before buying an iPod? or b) owned a smart phone before buying an iPhone?) Now those people don't know that there are other iPod-compatible music outlets besides the iTunes store, and there *isn't* anywhere else to buy apps for the iPhone besides the app store.
So forgive us for hoping the iPad fails. If it succeeds, it will only further ingrain the vendor-lock-in model in the psyche of American consumers. That would be a loss for all of us.
Great point.
The obvious parallel here is hearing impairment. The deaf community does not consider themselves to be disabled (though that confuses me when a deaf individual sues for accommodation under ADA). When cochlear implants became possible in the 80's, deaf protests were held outside Senate hearings on whether to cover them with Medicare.
If it costs $10^12 to *attempt* to prevent it and $10^8 to adapt, plus we can bring about a bunch of good with the rest of the funds, it's a no-brainer to me. Admittedly, I pulled those numbers out of mid-air, but it's just an illustration of the options we should consider.
I'd mod you up, but I already commented.
The original poster fully supports Lomborg''s position. Oddly, none of the mainstream environmentalists (that I've seem - please correct me if I'm wrong) are pushing adaptation.
On another note, Lomborg also compares the cost of fighting global warming to the cost of other efforts. He claims that we could get almost everyone clean drinking water and eradicate malaria for less than cap-and-trade would cost.
Not a skeptic; just want to know.
Was that the IPCC sea-level claim that was based on a paper that was retracted this week?
I agree with you. Putting a trackpad on the back - if done properly - could be one of those I-can't-believe-we-didn't-think-of-this-before ideas. I hope to see it on more devices, if it works. Even if it does work, it might not catch on. The old Garmin 12 had thumb controls *above* the screen. Despite its efficiency for one-hand use, that format never caught on.
Back in the 19th Century (in the US anyway), mail *recipients* paid postage to get their mail from the local general store. Political figures and others who might have a negative following would receive scores of blank letters and have to pay for them. The objective was to either crowd out the legitimate communications or bankrupt the recipient. Traditionally, one could place an ad in the local paper explaining that he or she would no longer receive letters at the store, which would free them from their obligation.
Also, his "they were in charge" cry is tiresome since congress has been in democratic control since 2006. I saw one poll just after the 2008 election asking people which party controlled congress. Around 80% of those who voted democratic responded "the republicans."
Of course, if the tables were turned, I'm not sure those who vote republican would have any clearer idea of how the government operates. It just demonstrates how people craft reality to meet their own beliefs.
One danger of any instructional system is that the student will only retain the material as it pertains to the classroom context. Last night a teacher told me that their "social-awareness" curriculum seemed to work great, until they watched the kids on the playground. In class, the kids applied the negotiation and mediation skills, but not outside the classroom.
I've had math teachers tell me they couldn't think of a real-world problem that could be solved with the math they were teaching.
With educational games - on a computer or not - social or not - the fear is that the students will learn the rules of the game, which are loose abstractions of physical reality, rather than the rules of reality. Oregon Trail taught everyone that each settler needed 99 bullets, and that you could be killed by some wild animal called a "dysentery."
Off topic, but the use of "thru" on a thesis reminded me of something from my dissertation.
I used the term "thusly" in my prospectus, as in "So-and-so explained the effect thusly:" followed by a long quote. The most esteemed (and elderly) member of my committee said, "Look that up before you use it."
I discovered that "thusly" was first used by British satirists to mock the speech of people who were trying to sound intelligent. Its use was promptly adopted by academics.
I learned my lesson and changed it to "thus".
I'm a teacher educator. I'm frequently amazed at the disdain teachers have for parents. Parents are the ones holding back social justice; parents just aren't involved; any successful student can thank his teachers, any failure must blame his parents.
My favorite is that many in education believe there to be a causal link between parental involvement and student performance. A graduate student (who was also an assistant principal) sent me some references on it, and there was no experimental data to back up that claim (a whole lot of correlation data though). And yet we still have programs to get parents involved expecting that alone to drive up performance.
The more prevalent outcome of parental involvement is a faculty wishing the parents would fade back into the background. Teachers only want parents parents to be involved in a certain way.
Last week my second-grader told me, "Dad, did you know you should read everything your write after you write it?"
"Yes, it's called proof-reading, and the Internet would be a much better place if everyone did it."
You make a great point, but I don't think proof-reading would help many in this generation. I'm a professor and I get emails with "mr. smith" (not "Dr." or "Prof.") as the subject line. I believe (though I haven't tested this) that most of these students couldn't identify the errors.
Now, I'm the second-youngest faculty member in my department, and I didn't receive a lot of formal grammar and writing training in primary or secondary school, but what I did do was read a lot. I read the classics at a young age. I learned my grammar and vocabulary from those texts, which is why I'm so much at odds with The Elements of Style.
Do we complain how the Kindle or past Nokia phones are essentially closed to the average person the same way?
Yes. We. Do.
I just tested it again and it appears to be an issue only in the browser. When I add a note to an e-book, the screen keeps up fairly well. But when I type a long comment into a textarea on a webpage, it keeps up for the first few words and then slows to a crawl.
So, yeah, probably a bug in the code.
I checked a Kindle out of my college library and the WhisperNet browser was better than I had expected. I set up a textarea form on my server, and tested taking notes with it.
The only problem was that each letter would appear on its own refresh cycle (at about 1Hz). While it took me 51 seconds to type out a short paragraph, the K2 was locked up for another 60 seconds while each letter appeared one after the other.
It was clear that the string was saved to a buffer (because I *didn't* have to wait for each letter to appear before typing the next), and I know the refresh rate is just a limitation of e-ink, but it seems an alternative environment could display multiple characters with each refresh.